The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

E.B. Hudspeth

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-Century Paris

Asti Hustvedt

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

The Republic

Plato Plato

Black Chalk

Christopher J. Yates

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Dead Poets Society

N.H. Kleinbaum

Old School

Tobias Wolff

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

A History of Fear

Luke Dumas

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

Jennifer N. Brown

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Circe

Madeline Miller

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Fiona Sampson

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

An Academy for Liars

Alexis Henderson

Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

Marina Dyachenko

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Natalie Haynes

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris